Wine guru T.J. Douglas and marketing extraordinaire Hadley Douglas might just change your life. Their fresh approach to the wine shopping experience takes form in The Urban Grape, the spanking new addition to the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center.

Kirsten Amann is living what might be considered an upscale tippler’s dream. When not behind the bar at South End hotspot Toro, this multi-talented lady can be found helming her eponymous PR company. And as if that weren’t enough boozy goodness, Amann is a founding member of the Boston chapter of LUPEC: Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails.

Man, the week after July 4th is pretty rough. All those cookouts, fireworks, drinky fun times with good friends and summer night breezes to make it all so perfect, and then back to work. WAIT– not so fast there, friend!

Relationships were key in last Wednesday’s locavore event, “Farm to Fork: A Panel Discussion About How We Get The Food We Eat.” Thoughtfully organized and moderated by FRESH’s Drew Love, the panel featured the farmer (John Lee of Allandale Farms), the chef (JJ Gonson, chef/owner of Cuisine en Locale), the grocer (Jeff Morin, owner of CityFeed and Supply) and the network (Willow Blish, co-leader of the Boston chapter of Slow Food).

With the Second Annual Deviled Egg-Off, CitySearch Boston cooks up yet another kooky, delightfully over-specialized event at the now-infamous PA’s Lounge. (Remember Cupcake Camp? Me too: I’m still recovering from what almost turned into a full-blown case of diabeetus.)

You may be sadly unaware of this fact, but May 13th was the 204th birthday of the cocktail as we know it. It was on that day in 1806 that the Hudson, NY-based Balance and Columbian Repository defined a cocktail as a “stimulating liquor, containing spirits, sugar, water, and bitters.” (They helpfully went on to note that “it is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.”)

It’s riot time again, folks. Wine Riot, of course. The cool kids over at Second Glass are doing it again—bringing good wine to the non-snobby masses. Sure, they keep the vino flowing at a pretty steady pace throughout the year with their newsletters and crash courses, but every once in a while they break down the dam and present us with a two-day deluge. AND WE HAVE TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY.

The Boston Underground Film Festival is showing movies full of stuff you didn’t know you wanted to see through April 1st.

Since the birth of the internet, the printed word has taken a dangerous nosedive. Magazines and newspapers have been closing or laying off huge numbers of their staff. The publishing world has changed forever and in the midst of all of this change, Boston-based Remedy Quarterly was born into print.

The Boston Shaker opened its doors earlier this month, just steps from the Red Line in Davis Square, offering a solution to the cocktail lover’s wallet-related woes and giving hope to those of us looking to expand our horizon of homemade mixed drinks.